
Language Processing and Grammars : The role of functionally oriented computational models.
Title:
Language Processing and Grammars : The role of functionally oriented computational models.
Author:
Nolan, Brian.
ISBN:
9789027270641
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (402 pages)
Series:
Studies in Language Companion Series ; v.150
Studies in Language Companion Series
Contents:
Language Processing and Grammars -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- From the extraction of continuous features in parallel texts to visual analytics of heterogeneous areal-typological datasets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Algorithmic typology -- 2.1 Degree of synthesis -- 2.2 Amount of prefixing and suffixing -- 2.3 Amount of case marking -- 2.4 Synthetic vs. analytic negation marking -- 3. Visual analytics -- 4. Combining genealogical and areal information in a single visualization -- 4.1 The extended sunburst display -- 4.2 User interaction -- 4.3 Design decisions -- 4.4 Meta-information -- 5. Case studies -- 5.1 Case study 1: Indo-European languages -- 5.2 Case study 2: Languages of Papua New Guinea -- 6. Conclusions and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Lexical-syntactic analysis model of Spanish multi-word expressions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexicon and syntactic phenomena -- 2.1 The Lexicon -- 2.2 Lexical and syntactic phenomena -- 3. Combinatorial interdependencies -- 3.1 Syntagmatic relations -- Addition -- Ellipsis -- Permutation -- Versification -- 3.2 Paradigmatic relations -- Commutation -- Deautomatization -- Morpho-syntactic invariability features -- 3.3 Inflectional morphology of complex lexical units -- 3.4 Formal definitions -- 3.5 Typology of multi-member lexical units -- 4. Formal representation -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Three-place predicates in RRG -- 1. Introduction -- 2. RRG accounts to three-place predicates -- 3. A new computational model to RRG -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- A Role and Reference Grammar parser for German -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Grammatical features of German -- 1.2 The grammar model -- 2. German sentence structure in a RRG construction representation -- 3. Functional and technical requirements.
4. The constructions used for the parser -- 4.1 Construction 1: Die Katze trinkt die Milch -- 4.2 Construction 2: Die Katze trank die Milch -- 4.3 Construction 3: Die Katze ist auf dem Tisch -- 4.4 Construction 4: Trinkt die Katze die Milch -- 4.5 Construction 5: Die Katze hat die Milch getrunken -- 4.6 Construction 6: Getrunken hat die Katze die Milch -- 4.7 Construction 7: Die Milch wird von der Katze getrunken -- 4.8 Construction 8: Die Katze hat die Milch auf dem Tisch getrunken -- 5. Functional requirements of the parser -- 5.1 Sentence structure -- 5.2 The lexicon -- 5.3 The layout of the Role and Reference Grammar structure representation -- 6. Testing and results -- 6.1 Testing of construction 1 -- 6.2 Testing of construction 2 -- 6.3 Testing of construction 3 -- 6.4 Testing of construction 4 -- 6.5 Testing of construction 5 -- 6.6 Testing of construction 6 -- 6.7 Testing of construction 7 -- 6.8 Testing of construction 8 -- 7. Discussion -- 7.1 Purpose -- 7.2 Significance of this work -- 7.3 Future enhancements -- References -- Extending a lexicalist functional grammar through speech acts, constructions and conversational software agents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intelligent conversational agents -- 3. Role and reference grammar as the linguistic engine -- 4. Constructions as grammatical objects in RRG -- 4.1 Construction internal architecture -- 4.2 Construction internal processing workspace -- 5. Motivations for use of RRG in the agent framework -- 5.1 The UniArab machine translation system -- 5.2 Computing FunGramKB -- 5.3 Supporting the grammar-lexicon-construction continuum -- 6. The dialogue management framework for conversational agents -- 6.1 Generic conversational architecture for language aware software agents -- 6.2 The structure of a speech act for a conversational agent.
7. Conversational agent - Human actor: Dialogue steps as pseudo code -- 8. Discussion -- References -- The implementation of the CLS constructor in ARTEMIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. FunGramKB -- 3. Role and Reference Grammar -- 3.1 The standard model -- 3.2 The computational model -- 4. The CLS constructor in ARTEMIS -- 4.1 Pre-processing -- 4.2. Grammar building -- 4.3 Syntactic parsing -- 4.4 Parse tree refinement -- 4.5 CLS extraction -- 4.6 Final remark -- 5. Conclusions -- 6. Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix 1. XML-formatted parse tree -- Appendix 2. XSD schema for the validation of XML-formatted parse trees -- Appendix 3. Context-free grammar for the CLS (EBNF and graphical representation) -- Appendix 4. Activity diagram for the construction of the CLS in ARTEMIS -- FrameNet and FunGramKB -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Main tenets of FN and FunGramKB -- 2.1 FN -- 2.2 FunGramKB -- 3. Comparing a lexically-oriented and a conceptually-driven approach -- 3.1 Methodology -- 3.2 Lexical and conceptual information -- 3.3 Relations between frames and concepts -- 3.4 Information management -- 3.5 Multilingualism -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Exploring the thematic-frame mapping in FunGramKB -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lexicon editor -- 3. Thematic-frame mapping -- 3.1 Thematic roles -- 4. Cases of thematic-frame mapping -- 4.1 Perfect mapping -- 4.2 Imperfect mapping -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1. Semantic Interpretation of the Thematic Roles of Arguments -- FunGramKB term extractor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus compilation -- 3. FunGramKB term extractor -- 4. FGKBTE's main functions -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Deep semantic representation in a domain-specific ontology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linking EcoLexicon to FunGramKB -- 2.1 Syntactic heterogeneity -- 2.2 Terminological heterogeneity.
2.3 Conceptual heterogeneity -- 2.4 Phases of the process -- 3. The case of RAIN -- 3.1 +RAIN_00 in FunGramKB -- 3.2 RAIN in EcoLexicon -- 3.3 Identification of overlapping concepts and hierarchical rearrangement -- 3.4 Conceptual modeling and mapping: Deep semantic representation in EcoLexicon -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A functional and constructional approach for specialized knowledge resources -- 1. Terminological knowledge bases and linguistic theory -- 2. Verbs in terminology -- 3. Lexical domains in terminology -- 4. Lexical domains through semantic deconstruction -- 5. Hierarchical organization through semantic dependency properties -- 6. Towards a lexical entry -- 6.1 Aktionsart classes -- 6.2 Semantic roles and macroroles -- 6.3 Lexical restrictions in verbs arguments -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Applying the lexical constructional model to ontology building -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pattern-based approaches for knowledge acquisition -- 2.1 Verb-centred patterns for knowledge acquisition -- 2.2 Main Limitations of pattern-based approaches for knowledge acquisition -- 3. Ontology design patterns -- 4. The lexical constructional model -- 4.1 The Generative Lexicon -- 5. Analyzing LSPs with the LCM lexical templates -- 5.1 Lexical template for classify -- 5.2 Lexical template for classify into -- 5.3 Lexical template for classify as -- 5.4 Lexical template for include -- 5.5 Lexical template for contain -- 6. From linguistic patterns to ontological constructs: A user-centred approach -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The interaction of non-linguistic and linguistic knowledge in FunGramKB -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of FGKB -- 3. FGKB's Ontology -- 3.1 Ontological conceptual information -- 4. The FGKB lexicon -- 5. The FGKB grammaticon.
6. Talmy's theory of lexicalization patterns -- 7. Beyond ontological postulates -- 5.1 Concepts with path specifications in the MPs -- 5.2 Concepts with manner semantics in the MPs -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Low-level situational cognitive models within the Lexical Constructional Model and their computational implementation in FunGramKB -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cognitive modeling in the LCM -- 3. Towards a typology of low-level situational schemata -- 4. The framework: FunGramKB -- 4.1 The representation of low-level situational schemata in the cognicon -- 5. Conclusion -- References.
Abstract:
This paper investigates the notion of low-level situational cognitive model, its role in linguistic description and its possible computational treatment in the knowledge base FunGramKB. Low-level situational models are exploited metonymically to produce situation-based implicatures. When such inferences become stably associated with a formal pattern, they give rise to implicational constructions. Other kinds of construction make use of different kinds of cognitive model. For example, argument-structure constructions are based on high-level non-situational cognitive models. The paper then provides a typology of low-level situational cognitive models, which can be roughly equated with Schank and Abelson's now classical notion of script. Schank and Abelson's classification into situational, personal and instrumental scripts is revised and refined to make it include a further division into simple, complex and composite scripts. Simple scripts capture sequences of actions, while complex scripts consist of chained sequences of subscripts and composite scripts are combinations of independent subscripts. Since scripts are cases of procedural knowledge, which is included in the so-called cognicon of FunGramKB, the paper explores the incorporation of this typology into the architecture of this part of the knowledge base. This incorporation is argued to endow the cognicon with greater descriptive parsimony, which results in a more efficient computational implementation. Finally, the paper uses the FunGramKB representation metalanguage COREL as an adequate way of supplying precise descriptions in terms of event structure variables and their sequencing, which turns out to be useful to enhance descriptive adequacy in the linguistic model itself.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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